◎There are risks anyway, so why not just give it a try◎

Xia Li had never realized before that Poxiao was such a bold and timid person.

He said "A monster is here to give me experience", but his legs were shaking back and forth honestly, like two strings that were about to break.

Seeing him getting closer and closer to the cave entrance, everyone couldn't help but tense up and hold their breath, fearing that a monster would rush out of the cave in the next second.

Five steps, four steps...

Three steps, two steps...

Just one step left!

Dawn was counting the days secretly, and when he was about to take the most critical step into the cave, suddenly, two faint white lights appeared in the cave.

The light was not strong and disappeared in a flash. In addition, there was ice and snow all around, so the white light was not very obvious when it flashed by.

At least Ice Cream, Moonlight and Zero behind him didn't notice.

Poxiao felt that he might have been dazzled by the cold wave. He took a deep breath and took the last step carefully at the junction of the inside and outside of the cave.

hiss--

A strange sound was heard in the cave.

He held his breath.

A white-gray shadow swayed in the cave.

The taut string relaxed with a whoosh.

"Oh, it's a little snake." He turned around and said calmly to the four people behind him.

"Are you sure it's a little snake?"

However, Yue Se's expression did not relax at all because of his words. Instead, his aura became more condensed as he saw the creatures in the cave gradually reveal their true forms from the darkness.

"It's a little snake. I saw it just now." Dawn nodded.

Not only did he see it, he also confirmed that the two flashes of white light that had just passed by were emitted from the eyes of the little snake.

"The head is not big, only about the size of my fist."

To prove that he was not mistaken, he deliberately drew the size of the snake's head.

After all, the head is only as big as a fist, so how strong can a snake be?

With this common sense in mind, he turned his gaze back to the ice cave, and then.

Dumbfounded!

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Yuese looked at the snake head that slowly emerged from the cave, swaying in the air, and was about to bite Dawn's chest. His face turned dark, and he quickly loaded the arrow and drew the bow, pointing the spear at the snake head.

With a whoosh, the arrow hit the snake's forehead.

A head flops onto the ice.

Why do you say it is one?

Because there was a second, third, fourth... and countless other snake heads swaying out of the cave, each with a hissing tongue, it was like a snake den!

“What the hell! What the hell!!!!” Poxiao jumped three feet high.

No one knew whether he was frightened by the sharp arrows in the moonlight or by the densely packed snake heads of different sizes. Xia Li and the other three only heard the "beautiful greetings" in their ears.

"Fuck, this cave is not big! There is only enough space for a few adults, how can there be so many snakes?!" Poxiao's scalp tingled, and he ran out of the cave while cursing.

Xia Li stared at the snake heads floating in the air, swaying up and down in a constant protest against them, and explained in a voice that couldn't be calmer, "This should be a clay pot hole, with a small mouth and a large belly."

Otherwise it wouldn’t be able to hold so many snake heads.

Everyone's heart sank.

"And there was only one snake in the cave," he added.

"What?!" Not only Dawn, but everyone else was shocked as well.

"According to the official monster description, this should be an ice hydra, with all the heads sharing the same body."

There is actually a monster encyclopedia on the official website, but it does not specify which map it will appear on. Most players just glance at it quickly and don't remember it in their minds, so what Xia Li said is reasonable and well-founded and will not be exposed.

After she finished speaking, she quickly rushed to the cave entrance, raised her hand, released her palm, then flashed to the other side, raised her hand again, and her hands kept moving.

There were only a few muffled bangs, as if stones buried in the soil were blown away by a bomb, and the scattered snake heads were directly blown into pieces by the black poisonous gas.

Then a group of poisonous bees swarmed up again and surrounded all the snake heads that poked out of the hole.

Red numbers popped out at the entrance of the cave like fireworks. Even though Dawn and the others had watched it live with her many times, they still couldn't calm down for a long time.

This is because of the restrictions of the alchemist profession, which causes her to only be able to fight with bare hands. If she had a big sword and a bow and arrow, wouldn't the operation be more gorgeous?

Before they could sigh a few more times, her voice reached their ears.

"Everyone, spread out and fight the snake head. Remember to control your DPS. If you see the damage is high, stop and dodge. Wait and fight again later."

It would be nice if there were a warrior or paladin in the team, Xia Li thought. Unfortunately, the current five people were a priest, a thief, two archers, and she, an alchemist, and none of them had the warrior class's taunt skill.

She is also the one with the highest output among the five people, so the first place in DPS must fall on her.

It would be fine if it were any other monster. Although the monster specifically targets players like her whose output is prone to OT, she is fast enough and can dodge attacks better than others, so she is not afraid even if she OTs.

But the hydra is different, it is a mutant monster.

Mutated monsters will show mutations in certain attributes, just like the mutated evil-toothed fish she met in the Evil-tooth Sea before. The mutated attribute is health, which is much thicker than that of ordinary monsters of the same level.

As for the mutation of the Hydra, it is not about blood or attack, but about the dispersion of hatred.

In the absence of a warrior to pull aggro, in addition to the player with the highest output, the player with the second highest output will also suffer the same amount of attack at the same time.

And that's what she meant just now. Don't be too obsessed with output. Stop when it's time to stop. Wait for your teammates' output to come up and replace yours, and then continue to use your skills.

This cycle ensures that everyone survives.

After hearing her instructions, the four people in the team scattered like birds and beasts. Except for Pastor Ice Cream who found a position where he could treat everyone at the same time, the other three people ran in different directions.

Yuese and Lingde were archers. They ran while shooting arrows at the dozen or so snake heads that jumped out from behind them. However, the snake heads were very cunning. Several times, the arrows were about to hit their heads, but the snake heads slid to the side and nimbly dodged their stray arrows.

The hit rate is much lower than when fighting wild monsters.

The two men looked serious, looked at each other, and then put arrows on their fingers at the same time.

Thousands of arrows flew up from all directions, densely packed and in a grand formation.

More than a dozen snake heads were pierced by arrows at once, and they fell dead at his feet like skewers on skewers.

On the DPS list, two people's names directly rose to second and third, Moonlight Two and Zero Degree Three.

"I don't believe that my group attack skills can't hit you." Yue Se kicked the snake's head and clicked his tongue.

But the next second.

A hissing sound suddenly arose.

It was as if countless snake tongues were poking into the eardrums, and the rapid trembling sound made the whole body tremble with fear, followed by a cold feeling of terror that rushed down.

-850!

A scarlet number suddenly popped up above Yue Se's head, and her health bar suddenly dropped a lot!

Zero was stunned: "What's going on?!"

The snake heads that followed them just now were all killed by them, so how come there was a sudden attack?

"Ice cream, treat Yuese! Yuese, stop first, and let Dawn take over." Xia Li continued to command calmly and orderly.

Just now, she had been attacking near the cave entrance, and OT was always in the lead. The snake head naturally directed its hatred towards her and released the spell skill [Hiss] at her.

Hissing is only a single-target skill, but because of the hatred dispersion effect, the skill effect also falls on Yuese, who is ranked second.

Both of them suffered nearly 1,000 points of damage at the same time.

Seeing this, Ice Cream quickly waved the priest's staff to heal. She used the single-target healing skill [Holy Light], which could only heal one teammate at a time.

Knowing that Xia Li had better operation skills and stronger survival skills, Ice Cream prioritized the holy light falling on Yue Se.

Yue Se's health bar went up a bit, and she was out of danger.

Then she swung her priest staff again, this time intending to restore Xia Li's health. Xia Li saw her move and stopped her: "No, save your mana."

After a pause, he reminded her: "You can't use potions now. Your mana is very precious."

Ice Cream suddenly realized and looked at her mana bar. It was only 60% left. She really couldn't do it as freely as she did in a dungeon.

Yue Se on the other side obeyed her command, immediately withdrew her hand and retreated, keeping a relatively long distance from the snake head that had just come out of the hole. The snake head wanted to attack her, but found that it was out of its attack range, so it had to turn towards Xia Li, who had the highest output, and opened its snake mouth wide again.

Well, one mouth may not seem like much, but if more than ten or twenty snake mouths open at the same time, with their scarlet tongues reflected on the ice, it would really make people feel creepy.

But this time, Poxiao didn't back down and rushed forward with courage.

Backstab! Strangulation!

Run! Disappear!

Heavy rain of pear blossoms!

During this period, he learned a lot of new skills. He first attacked a snake head to attract their collective attention, then chose to disappear, and finally used the group skills to quickly eliminate the dozens of snake heads that were attracted!

"Perfect!" Poxiao himself was stunned by his own operation.

At the same time, his name jumped directly to second place.

hiss--!

The sound of snakes rang in my ears again.

-1100!

-720!

Two still eye-catching numbers appeared above Poxiao and Xia Li's heads respectively.

The remaining three were terrified. After all, this was Dawn's first time under attack. Although her health had dropped significantly, she could still hold on for a while. But she was different! She had already taken nearly 1,000 points of damage in the previous round, and this time she took another hit. The Alchemist was also a fragile hero, so how could she withstand such a blow?

"Sister Lihua, I will treat you!" Ice Cream couldn't bear it anymore. No matter how precious the treasure was, saving people was the most important thing!

She raised her priest's staff, ready to bring down the holy light.

"No treatment allowed, give it to Dawn."

Her voice was deep and steady, as if losing so much blood had nothing to do with her.

Everyone's throat was choked, especially Bingchuan. She looked at Xia Li with burning eyes, with some unwillingness in her eyes.

"Listen to Ali and break the holy light at dawn." Yuese gestured to Bingchuan.

"Sister Yue..." Ice Cream was stunned again, "You are not...?"

Moonlight smiled at her and shook his head.

Yes, she was once one of the thousands of players who had no good feelings towards the alchemist in front of her. Of course, she was far from hating him. She just thought that the other party was just an ordinary person. It was just that his skills were slightly better and his luck was better than others. That's why he was praised to the sky by everyone.

At one point, she even didn't understand why President Baili Xi was willing to drag everyone into acting just for her.

However, ever since she joined her team to fight the Yakao Village dungeon, and witnessed how she remained absolutely calm in the face of powerful monsters, how she avoided monster attacks with extremely smooth movements, how she observed every detail in various emergencies, and finally how she led everyone through the dungeon together, she truly understood how powerful she was.

Not only is he powerful, but he's also very humble. He's not at all like some players in the world channel say, arrogant and self-righteous.

They are just jealous!

Yue Se looked at Bing Chuan's slightly surprised face and sent her a message through the private channel: "Believe in her, just like she has always believed in us."

Telling them the plan of acting out the drama without reservation and taking them to the dungeon with their inexperienced members, isn't that giving them full trust?

Ice Cream looked at the words in the dialog box, her eyes flickering. Soon, she raised her head again, and the priest's staff in her hand pointed towards Dawn.

The entire team went through five rounds of this cycle, and the second place position kept changing for five rounds. Moonlight, Dawn, and Zero all suffered the hissing attacks of the hydra in turn, and unsurprisingly, their blood dropped sharply each time.

Fortunately, Ice Cream reacted quickly and immediately pulled them up after seeing them bleed. Overall, the four people were still in a relatively safe state.

However, Xia Li is different.

She had already lost a lot of blood in the first two rounds, and then she refused to let Ice Cream heal her. She was stuck in the first position, outputting damage and taking injuries. It was really too dangerous!

"Sister Lihua, I still have Lan. Let me treat you..."

As Ice Cream spoke, he looked at the blood volume following Xia Li's name in the list. The last word "heal" was stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter it for a long time.

"Yes, Ali, the ice cream can still hold up." Yue Se and the other two did not notice anything strange about the ice cream, and they all responded.

After he finished speaking, the three of them were dumbfounded.

What's going on?

Weren't we just bombarded by that snake for five rounds?

But why didn't she lose much blood?

Aren't they not allowed to drink medicine or use props?

How did she keep her blood steady?

A series of questions popped up in their minds, and the four people were surprised and puzzled.

When the last venomous bee shot out from her palm, and more than ten snake heads fell to the ground, Xia Li confirmed that no more snake heads were coming out of the cave. She then withdrew her hand, took a deep breath, and explained, "My bracelet has [Hemostasis], and my armor has [Immunity]."

Everyone hissed.

"The former reduces the damage received, and the latter can completely avoid damage." Xia Li added another sentence because she was afraid that they didn't understand the meaning of these two special effects.

Everyone roared again.

"But there's no guarantee that it will be triggered every time."

Everyone nodded, and then suddenly realized something.

"Oh, that's not right. It can't be triggered every time. That means it will still cause harm to you!" Poxiao said what was in his mind, and also expressed the doubts of the remaining three people.

"It did cause damage," Xia Li said bluntly. "The equipment's special effects didn't trigger in the first two rounds, so I lost a lot of health. In the next five rounds, [Stop Bleeding] triggered in two rounds, [Immunity] triggered in two rounds, and the remaining round didn't trigger it, so I took 800 points of damage."

The four members of Dawn were horrified: Could this be the legendary European Emperor?!

Xia Li didn’t know whether it was the King of Luckiest or not, but she won the bet anyway.

The team was supposed to be composed of 20 people, but was forcibly split into 5-person teams by the cold wave. Not to mention passing the level, it is not certain whether they can survive the night safely.

Moreover, apart from the ice cave, there is no other place to hide at night in this area. If they don't enter the cave, they may die. If they fight the hydra before entering the cave, they may also die. It is risky either way, so they might as well give it a try and see if God will favor them.

"I suddenly want to throw away my garbage clothes..."

When he thought about the fact that she had two pieces of equipment with special effects, and then looked at himself, Dawn shed tears as he spoke, why couldn't he get a piece of precious equipment?

The other three were also drooling with envy. They really wanted to ask what materials were needed to make such good equipment. Maybe if they gritted their teeth and worked hard, they could assemble the complete set?

But then he thought, how could ordinary people like them easily obtain the boss's equipment? Forget it, stop dreaming, just do the tasks steadily, and just hope that I can get the precious equipment I want from the system daddy!

After beating all the snake heads, the snake bodies naturally lost their vitality. Something came down from the inside of the cave with a bang, shaking the snake heads on the ground and causing them to roll to all sides.

At dawn, they surrounded them from the perimeter and followed Xia Li a few steps into the cave.

A white snake body was twisted and lying on the ground.

-over-